Panhandle braces for freezing rain and cold snap
Cold front moves into Odessa early today as freezing drizzle coats Panhandle roads. Ice and snow pellets fall near Borger while Amarillo issues travel warnings. Northwest Texas ranchers urged to prepare as temperatures drop to the 20s and 30s. highs near 45 for Wed and Thu.
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Panhandle
Texas Highway Department
Amarillo
Lubbock
Childress
Wellington
Hereford
Borger
National Weather Service
Texas
Brownsville
Northwest Texas
Two Odessans Charged With Burglary Of Residence
Michael Jeff Moreland, 20, of Beechwood, jailed with a $3,000 bond for the November 28 burglary of Robert C. Wage residence at 3720 Springle. David Paul Teer, 17, of East 23rd, held in Ward County jail on auto theft charges and arrested in Van Horn with three others. Teer faces burglary charges with bond not yet set. Moreland turned himself into Odessa police around noon Tuesday.
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Michael Jeff Moreland
Beechwood
Robert C. Wage
Springale
David Paul Teer
East 23Rd
Teer
Ward
Monahans
van Horn
Odessa American publication details and pricing
The Odessa American published daily in Odessa Texas notes its second class mail status The paper lists subscription rates for home delivery in Odessa and Ector County at 250 per month retail travel zones at 200 per month and 35 cents per week in all other zones The year rate is 3000 with options for six months and three months The single copy price is 18 cents on weekdays and 3 cents on Sundays.
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Odessa
Texas
Americee Odessa Americam
Strout
Odessa American
Ector County
Rodeo to Star in Major Movie Filmed in Odessa
Odessa's Sand Hills indoor rodeo earns a film role in When the Legends Die from 20th Century Fox. Associate producer Joseph Lenzi said Fred Forrest will portray the Indian hero with Richard Widmark co starring. About 40 to 50 local cowboys and extras will participate behind the chutes as crews from California and Chicago film a grand entry scene. Filming likely Jan 5 and will take one to two nights with an edited final length near 1 hour 48 minutes. Tickets for rodeo performances start Jan 1 at Inn of the Golden West and Gibsons. box seats $4, reserved $3.
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Odessa
Sand Hills
Joseph
Pepi) Lenzi
20Th Century
Fox Film Corp
Lenzi
Richard Widmark
Fred Forrest
Lanzi
San Hills
Ector County Coliseum
California
Chicago
Fred Willis
Coliseum
Willis
Forrest
Stewart Millard
Hal Borland
Robert Dozier
Inn of the Golden West
Gibsons
Three Plead Guilty Draw Terms In Jail
Three men pled guilty to felonies and received prison terms in 70th District Court. Melvin Schooler 18 Denison and Charles Brown 31 were given seven years each for passing a $194.86 worthless check to Gibson's Discount Center. C. J. Jackson 49 Monahans drew one year for a second offense of driving while intoxicated stemming from an Oct. 18 arrest near Odessa. All cases were proved by stipulation with Atty. Jim Bobo handling the state and court-appointed defense for the two check cases.
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70Th District Court
Gibson’s Discount Center
North Grand‘view
Melvin Eugene ‘Schooler
Denison
Charles Raymond Brown
North
Tom Green
Jim Bobo
Bill Shell
Schooler
Howard Sammons
Brown
C. J. Jackson
Monahans
Ector County
Midland
Jackson
Barrett Road
Odessa
Injuries Reported After Domestic Vehicle Incidents
Anita Thompson, 36, of 2219 West Wood Dr., listed in satisfactory condition at Medical Center Hospital after a Tuesday fall from a car. She complained of headaches and dizziness. Don Swindell, 21, of 3706 North Tom Green, treated for a knee injury from a Tuesday motorcycle accident and released. No police reports filed.
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Anita Thompson
West Wood Dr
Medical Center Hospital
Don Swindell
North Tom Green
Fire in vacant lot at 415 West 47th extinguished
Odessa Fire Department responded Tuesday to a grass fire in a vacant lot at 415 West 47th. The fire was extinguished on arrival with no damage. Sparks from a burning barrel of trash likely started the blaze.
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Odessa
415 West 47Th
Local Meeting Listings for Odessa Area Clubs
Noon Downtown Lions and Noon Inn of Golden West Ballroom. Noon Odessa Civitan and Noon Sandhills American Business Club dine at Sands Restaurant. 6 30 P M Evening Lions at Sands Restaurant. 7 30 P M Ector County School Board at Administration Building Eighth and Lee. 7 30 P M Odessa Toastmistress Club at KOSA TV conference room 1211 North Whitaker.
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Downtown
Lions
Inn of Golden West
Sandhills
Sands Restaurant
Ector County School Board
Eighth and Lee
Odessa Toastmistress Club
Kosa TV
North Whitaker
Deaths Gab Pioneer George McSpadden Dies at 78
MARFA (Staff) George McSpadden, long time Texas settler, died at age 78 after a seizure at his Marta home. He was survived by his mother Mrs. Stonewall Jackson McSpadden, who will turn 104 on Feb 15, and was the third of her 10 children to die this year, following Fitzhugh McSpadden's death last February.
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Marfa
George McSpadden
Texas
Stonewall Jackson McSpadden
Fitzhugh McSpadden
Marta
Retired Auto Salesman Dies in Local Nursing Home
Everett I. Halbrook aged 73 of 3122 North Jackson died Tuesday in a local nursing home. Services Thursday at 2 p.m. in Hubbard-Kelly Chapel with burial at Sunset Memorial Gardens. He was born December 3, 1898 in Salem Missouri and married November 30, 1920 in Willington Kansas to Martha Cushman. He moved to Odessa in 1968 from Wichita and was a member of the First United Methodist Church and Modern Woodmen of the World. Survived by his widow two daughters Lorene Leslie and Maxene Halbrook a sister Mrs A J Robinson of Chicago and two grandchildren Mrs Martha McDow and Kirk Leslie plus one great grandchild Tony McDow.
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Everett I. Halbrook
North Jackson
Hubbard-Kelly
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Salem
Willington
Kan
Martha M. Cushman
Odessa
Wichita
First United Methodist Church
Modern Woodmen of the World
Lorene Leslie
I Castle Road
Maxene Halbrook
West 20Th
A. JC. Robinson
Chicago
Ill
Martha McDow
Austin
Kirk Lesie
Tony McDow
Guadalupe Hernandez
Marathon
St.Mary’s Catholic Church
Geeslin
Brewster Memorial Hospital
Shafter
Theresa Baeza
Castelon
Hernandez
Terlingua
Notable Western Texans Remembered in Obituaries and Services
Obituaries recount funeral plans and survivors for George McSpadden of Alpine Marfa area born 1893 World War I veteran rancher and oil services partner. Phillip Gordon Allen 30 of Andrews died in oil rig accident survived by mother Delbert Moore. Guadalupe Hernandez 176 of Marathon Funeral Mass in Marathon St Marys Church burial Marathon Geeslin Funeral Home in charge.
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Phillip Gordon Allen
Delbert Moore
Artesia
Martin Gibson
Singleton Funeral Home
Andrews
Io Terpening-Paulin Funeral Home
N.M
Funeral notices list several regional deaths this week
Multiple obituaries and funeral notices across Borger Lubbock Ballinger and Ballinger memorial hospital settings. Woodrow Chambers age 59 of Borger dies after illness. burial at West Lawn Cemetery. George McFadden, lifelong investor and geologist, dies in a local nursing home. Hillary Smith, 82, of Lubbock dies after illness with 1:30 p.m. services at Franklin Bartley Chapel. Rufus Allen Sr., 81, Ballinger, dies after extended illness with 3 p.m. services at Allen Davis Chapel. Survivors named include wives children and siblings across several towns.
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Woodrow Wilson Chambers
Basil Drive
Brown Funeral Home
Borger
West Lawn
Medical Center Hospital
Meither Machine Shop
Levenshooter
Oklo
Woman Dies In Her Home Myrtie McCorkle 93
Myrtie Leona McCorkle aged 93 of 401 North Whitaker died at home after a short illness. Services are pending with Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. Born January 31, 1878 in Hopkins County she married R. L. McCorkle in December 1900 in Sulphur Springs. She came to Odessa six years ago from Dallas and was a Methodist. Survivors include two sons T. L. McCorkle Albuquerque and W. H. McCorkle Odessa, two daughters Mrs. Kate Davis Odessa and Mrs. Robert Althausen Dallas, a brother John Beville Yukon and seven others.
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Sweetwater
Homer J. Ware
Austin
Odessa
Cate-Spencer
Ware
Jimie Berry
Veterans Aministration Hospital
Temple
Rising Star
Browning
Maxine McNeal
Abilene
Myrtie Leona McCorkle
North Whitaker
Hubbard-Kelly
Sorn
Hopkins County
Sulphur Springs
R. L. McCorkle
Dallas
Methodist Church
T. L. McCorkle
Albuquerque
N.M
77 Year-Old's Rites Planned At Local Funeral Home
Funeral services for Martial Skinner 77 of 1522 North Jackson will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Paul A. Rix Funeral Home. A retired plumbing business operator he died about 9:45 p.m. Monday in Medical Center.
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Martial Skinner
North Jackson
Paul A. Rix
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Medical Center Hospital
Blackshear Junior High Ninth Grade Homemaking Club Officers
Officers of the Ninth grade Homemaking Club of Blackshear Junior High School are pictured with names and home addresses. Parliasiament Katie Yates, vice president Vanessa Lawrence, president Sandra Richmond, assistant secretary Rachel Archie, second vice president Vina Blacknall, secretary Mary Jenkins, chaplain Sharon Wallace, reporter Gwen Williams, song leader Lourdes Alvarez, treasurer Maria E Mendoza, historian Maria Nabarrette.
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Blackshear
Blackshear Junior High School
Katie Yates
Charles Conley
Snyder
Vanessa Lawrence
Freddy Lawrence
East Snyder
Sandra Richmond
Winfred Richmond
Hudson
Rachel Archie
Babe Archie
East Odessa
Vina Blacknall
Ben Blacknall
Lindy
Mary Jenkins
Melvin Jenkins
Wabash
Sharon Wallace
Jom Winfield
Gwen Williams
Willie E. Williams
Odessa
Lourdes Alvarez
Paula Alvarez
Laredo
Maria E. Mendoza
Ynez Mendoza
East Ann
Maria Nabarrette
Victor Naberrette
Matameres
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Jock Hickleus
Golden Beer
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Father & Son
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Rawlings
John Newcomb
Chemehd Aluminninm
Pennes
PRI
Ocoacecece
Maria
HOMER
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Fort Stockton
Irene M. Ashabranner
First Baptist Church
Ada
Okla
Memorial Park
Pecos County Memorial Hospital
Sherman
Baptist Church
Order of the Eastern Star
Wayne Merrill
Elm Grove
Alpine
Kelley
McSpadden
West Texas
Ramrod
Pete Kennedy
Della Scadday
K. A. Gilligan
Tucson
Decatur
Welder
George Reimund McFadden
Hubbard- Kelly Funeral Home
Hillary Smith
Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home
Meadow Cemetery
Methodist Hospital
Lynn County
Fionia
Lee
Hobbs
Rufus Allen SR
Ballinger
Allen Davis
Buriial
Old Runnels
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Runnels City
Frances Wood
Rufus Jr
Richardson
Clark Keller
John E. Green Jr
Worth Allen
Santa Barbara
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